Chapter 341: Les: Henry, I Think You Want to Improve

A few days of peace passed, and then a piece of news exploded the British wizarding world.

The entire page of the Daily Prophet that day was describing the Wizengamot meeting, which they called the trial of the century.

This trial was initiated by Amelia Bones, the current director of the Ministry of Magic Law Enforcement Department. With the approval of Dumbledore, the chief wizard of the Wizengamot, all Wizengamot members and almost the entire Ministry of Magic, including Minister of Magic Fudge and Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation Barty Crouch, were summoned.

Then in front of all the wizards present, she announced that she had caught Sirius Black and Wormtail Peter Pettigrew.

After hearing the name "Peter Pettigrew", the whole audience was in an uproar. Many people thought there was something wrong with their ears until Peter and Sirius were brought to the court together.

Bones did not give the jury time to question, and directly lifted Wormtail's sleeve to show everyone the Dark Mark on his arm. At the same time, she also asked Sirius to roll up his sleeves to show everyone his hairy arms without any tattoo marks.

Under such a sharp contrast, the wizards on the jury were shaken.

Not every Death Eater has the Dark Mark. Only those who have made enough contributions to the mysterious man can be "granted" this honor.

Peter Pettigrew subconsciously wanted to argue, but the potion that Rice forced him to take for a long time greatly damaged his brain, making his thinking very dull. He was no match for Bones at all, and was refuted by her and couldn't even speak.

In the end, Dumbledore, the chief wizard of the Wizengamot, even provided a truth serum. Under the effect of the truth serum, Peter confessed everything.

The evidence was irrefutable, and all Peter's honors were stripped away, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. Sirius regained his freedom and washed away his grievances-the Ministry of Magic also paid a large sum of compensation for this.

Of course, there were more than one case heard on the day of the century trial. There were a series of shocking changes afterwards...

Barty Crouch was impeached for dereliction of duty. He sentenced Sirius to life imprisonment without trial and seriously violated the Ministry of Magic system. As the former Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he should bear the main responsibility for this.

Although many people supported his behavior at that time, he can only take the blame now. Who made him adopt such an impatient style back then?

When the Wizengamot Court voted to pass the impeachment case against him, old Barty Crouch seemed to have aged by dozens of years. In the end, he did not struggle, but resigned from all his positions according to the verdict and got a more decent exit.

When Barty Crouch walked out of the Wizengamot Court, Fudge subconsciously thought that everything was over - when the Sirius incident happened, he was only the deputy director of the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, and it should not be held accountable to him...

But he was still naive. If he did not hold the Sirius case accountable, could he not hold the Dementors accountable for the invasion of Hogwarts?

After reversing an unjust case and forcing a powerful director to resign, Bones launched an impeachment against the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge with the power of victory.

When Bones announced that he would impeach himself, Fudge's facial features were twisted together: he never expected that this day would come so soon.

He felt that he could hold on until this Christmas. And why couldn't he communicate with himself in advance? He thought sadly: If you promise him some benefits, he will take the initiative to abdicate! For example, if you give him the position of chairman of a certain committee, he will retire and retire with peace of mind. Why do you have to make it so undignified? !

Bones did think so at first, but Henry Greengrass firmly opposed her plan. He thought that this would lead to alerting the enemy, and it would be bad if Fudge found a way to turn the tables.

This is the apparent reason, and the most real reason is that Henry knows that Fudge has severely offended someone he shouldn't have offended, and that adult certainly doesn't want to see Fudge live a comfortable life after retirement, so he adopted the most ruthless way to deal with Fudge.

Fudge wanted to defend himself, but he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a loud booing in the stands - all from the parents of the students who opposed him at the beginning. They had already reached a consensus with Bones in secret, and now they just wanted Fudge to fall quickly.

When Dumbledore abstained from voting, Fudge knew that he was completely finished.

After Crouch, Fudge was also kicked out of the house in disgrace. This is already a very good ending. After all, he is still alive and well. This is an extraordinary achievement: offending Slytherin and Hufflepuff at the same time and still being able to get away with it.

At the end of the trial, it was a very trivial case: Sirius Black was fined for not reporting his Animagus form to the Ministry of Magic.

After knowing that Sirius was only fined, Professor McGonagall was indignant: Why did I have to report to the Ministry of Magic honestly? ! Why does it feel that not reporting is the mainstream choice of Animagus?

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“After Fudge was dismissed, he wanted to say something more, but two Aurors stood directly behind him, so he shut up.” In Madam Puddifoot’s teahouse, Henry vividly described to Rice the scene of Fudge’s downfall.

With the fall of Fudge, Henry Greengrass's invisible status has also risen, approaching Septimus Malfoy of the Malfoy family in the late 18th century - he had a great influence on the Ministry of Magic at the time, and many people believed that the then Minister of Magic, Ankhesus Osbert, was just his puppet.

How far Henry can go depends on the result of the "fight" between him and Bones.

But this is not what Rice wants to see. After realizing that the two could not quickly decide the winner, he gave up the idea of ​​making Bones a puppet of Henry, which was inconsistent with his interests.

He needs a united and efficient Ministry of Magic to deal with the increasingly severe challenges, rather than continuing to launch party struggles. If so, he might as well let Fudge continue to serve as a glue among the reactionaries. If Bones is too disobedient, he is not worried, because he has a good solution...

"Henry, I see you want to make progress." Rice took a sip of the tea in the cup, then frowned, pushed it aside, stared at Henry and said.

Henry:?

He suddenly had a bad premonition.

"You're kidding. When our ancestor Adrian was learning magic from you, he used up all the room for improvement in our Greengrass family. How could I make progress?" Henry was a Buddhist, so he deliberately didn't respond to Rice's words.

But how could Rice change his mind because of Henry's words? He smiled and said seriously: "I am a fortune teller. The fortune telling results tell me that the position of the next director of the International Magical Cooperation Department must be you. Don't refuse it."

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